Here's an update on my search for Mary FERNALD, who married Daniel FIELD in Kittery, ME on 10 Jan 1773. I studied Jonni Sue Schilaty's FERNALD data base, at <http://members.aol.com/jsjs418/RFernald.html>. [Warning: AOL is case-sensitive; one must use jsjs418, not JSJS418.] There are a bunch of Mary FERNALDs in that data base, and several about the right age. I set up three "reasonableness" criteria to help me decide what the right age should be. (1) At least 16 at time of marriage, which means born before Jan 1757. (2) No more than 30 at time of marriage, which means born after Jan 1743. (3) Somewhere near her husband's age (Daniel FIELD was born 23 May 1749). The Mary FERNALDs who were married to someone else during the time when Mr. and Mrs. Daniel FIELD were raising their family are easily excluded. They were (using their father's name to identify them): NAME PARENTS (FERNALD omitted) DOB HUSBAND DOM MaryJoe Joseph and Anna Moore 16 May 46 Benj Gunnison 9 Aug 70 MaryTom Thomas and Mary Scriggins 46 George Rogers 30 Aug 70 MaryToby Tobias and Lucy Lewis 2 May 51 John Fernald 25 Nov 72 MaryJim James and Mary Fernald 20 Jun 53 John Rogers 10 Nov 76 MaryJohn John and Margaret Fernald 10 Apr 54 William Pierce 16 Nov 83 All of these ladies meet the reasonableness criteria, but they were all married to someone else, so they are irrelevant. The following Mary FERNALDs have no husbands in Jonni's data base, and one of them could have been Daniel FIELD's wife: NAME PARENTS (FERNALD omitted) DOB MaryAbe Abraham and Mary Trickey 21 May 1757 MaryHerc Hercules and Mary Tucker 29 Mar 1742 MaryNat Nathaniel and Mary Weeks 22 Aug 1741 Using the reasonableness criteria cited above, I would judge MaryAbe to be the most likely, but I have no supporting facts to make that call. Two Mary FERNALDs were widows of FERNALD men, and could have remarried as [Mrs.] Mary FERNALD. Mary LEWIS (DOB not given) married Joseph FERNALD (b. 25 May 1738) on 6 Oct 1759; Joseph died after 1763 in Ellsworth, Hancock, ME. Mary HAMMATT (DOB not given) married Tobias FERNALD (b. 7 Nov 1736) on 27 Nov 1760; Tobias died 1767 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, NY. I'd guess that Mary LEWIS and Mary HAMMATT were both older than MaryNat, judging from their husbands' birth dates. Also, given the locales where their husbands died, I have to question whether either was living in Kittery as a widow. Does anyone out there have any info to cut through this Gordian knot? Thanks for your help. Bruce Bardes